[HBASE-5428] Allow for custom filters to be registered within the Thrift interface

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 0.92.0
• Fix Version/s: 0.94.0
• Component/s: Thrift
• Labels: patch
• Hadoop Flags: Reviewed
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Robert Roland
• Created: 17/Feb/12 21:08
• Updated: 09/Jul/13 23:36
• Resolved: 17/Feb/12 21:39

Description

Custom filters work within the Java client API, but are not accessible within the Thrift API. Attempting to use one will generate a "Filter Name x not supported"

Attached patch allows a user to specify a list of custom filters that are registered at Thrift server startup time within the HBase configuration files:

<property>
<name>hbase.thrift.filters</name>
<value>MyFilter:com.foo.Filter,OtherFilter:com.foo.OtherFilter</value>
</property>

Patch created off SVN r1245727

Issue Links

• relates to: HBASE-8819 Port HBASE-5428 to Thrift 2
• relates to: HBASE-7115 [shell] Provide a way to register custom filters with the Filter Language Parser